Indices · 2026-07-14

Six numbers to watch.

Daily market indices for LLM usage: reasoning share, free traffic, open weights, geography, concentration, and blended price. Formulas in the methodology.

343 models catalogued upstream on OpenRouter as of 2026-07-15.

Reasoning share

92.83%

+7.76pp · 30d

Free-traffic share

23.66%

+16.48pp · 30d

HHI (top-10)

750

+241.09 pts · 30d

Median $ / M paid

$0.620

$-0.12 · 30d

Reasoning Share Index

Share of tracked tokens going to reasoning-flagged models.

Tidelines.ai
Data: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-07-14

Free-Traffic Index

Share of tokens routed through :free variants.

Tidelines.ai
Data: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-07-14

HHI top-10 concentration

Herfindahl-Hirschman on the daily top-10 model shares. Higher = more concentrated.

Tidelines.ai
Data: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-07-14

Median blended price paid

Usage-weighted median of (0.3·prompt + 0.7·completion) $ / M tokens across all tracked models.

Tidelines.ai

Peak tracked volume: 9.3T tokens/day.

Data: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-07-14

Open weights vs closed

Share of tracked tokens routed to open-weights models versus closed-source APIs.

Tidelines.ai
Open-weightsClosed
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-07-14

China vs Western labs

Share of tracked tokens routed to Chinese labs versus US & European labs.

Tidelines.ai
ChinaUS & Europe
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-07-14

Top-10 HHI

Top-10 model share HHI stood at 750 on 2026-07-14 — higher = more concentrated. Source: Tidelines indices.